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Bowie Handicap Renewal Promises Good Contest Devil Diver Unlikely to Keep Engagement in Pimlico Stake I BALTIMORE, Md., April 12.— Opening • days general excitement having subsided I and the renewal of the Rowe Handicap, - the usual inaugural feature of Marylands spring season when ushered in at Bowie, now turf history, the atmosphere has reverted to normalcy at Pimlico, where is J being presented a combined meeting of this states four major racing associations. . Tomorrows program of eight races, not boasting a stake event, interest centers on Saturdays ,500 added Bowie Handicap, another fixture of the course of the same I name. A mile and 70 yards affair for three-year-olds and upward, it promises to bring r together a field from among Tola Rose, with 111 pounds, and such as Valdina Punch, Twilight Tear, Pensive, Pompeco, Famous Victory, Eric Knight, Chaldon Heath. Alquest, Alorter and the light-weighted three-year-old Armed, who, with -j Twilight Tear, the same age, have been 1 imposted at 100 pounds each. While it is understood Greentree Stables s Paumonok winner, Devil Diver, who is top ? weighted with 130 pounds, will not journey y down from New York for the Bowie, there I is every possibility that starters will include Arthur J. Sacketts Tola Rose. This s son of Head Play, quite competent a few v seasons back, failed to capture an endowed -j event last year. However, it may be that t his present condition is such that he will II be a dangerous factor. Not to be overlooked in the list of candidates is Calumet t Farms trio of three-year-olds, Armed, I Pensive and Twilight Tear. The latter is s one of the feminine mainstays of the establishment, while Armed campaigned undefeated _ in Miami this winter.
